It's been a busy week for Siemens. 

First came news that it had signed an agreement to acquire Precision Innovations Inc., an electronic-design automation software company, "expanding Siemens’ EDA portfolio with AI-powered chip planning capabilities that help semiconductor teams optimize power, performance and area earlier in the system-on-chip design process," per their press team, which added that Precision Innovations represents a key addition to its Digital Design Creation software.

Very cool. 

Then, a day later, the news broke that Siemens agreed to acquire Defacto Technologies, an EDA software company active in the register-transfer-level design field focused on automated system-on-a-chip (SoC) design creation and integration. The goal, according to the (very busy) Siemens press team is to expand Siemens’ EDA portfolio with capabilities that help customers manage growing SoC complexity through automated SoC design creation, earlier implementation assessment and integrated verification.

So what does this mean (beyond the fact that the huge players in this industrial-automation space are constantly acquiring the smaller players)? 

Well, it certainly demonstrates a commitment by Siemens to broaden its software portfolio, particularly in relation to digital design. And what that means for Siemens customers is that they can expect streamlined strategies to implement these solutions, should they have designs on doing so. We'll keep you posted.